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Richard S. Wheeler (1) (1935–2019)

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Richard S. (Shaw) Wheeler was born in Milwaukee in 1935 and grew up in nearby Wauwatosa. Wheeler spent three years in Hollywood in the mid-50s, where he worked in a record store and took acting lessons while struggling as a screenwriter. He eventually returned home, and attended the University of visa mer Wisconsin at Madison. He spent over a decade as a newspaperman, working as an editorial writer for the Phoenix Gazette, editorial page editor for the Oakland, California, Tribune, reporter on the Nevada Appeal in Carson City, and reporter and assistant city editor for the Billings, Montana, Gazette. In 1972, he turned to book editing, working in all for four publishers through 1987. As an editor for Walker & Company he edited twelve Western novels a year. Sandwiched between editing stints, in the mid-70s he worked at the Rancho de la Osa dude ranch in Sasabe, Arizona, on the Mexican border. There, in the off season, he experimented with his own fiction and wrote his first novel, Bushwack, published by Doubleday in 1978. Five more Western novels followed Bushwack before Wheeler was able to turn to writing full time: Beneath the Blue Mountain (1979), Winter Grass (1983), Sam Hook (1986), Richard Lamb (1987) and Dodging Red Cloud (1987). (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Richard S. Wheeler

Masterson (1999) 40 exemplar
Sierra (1996) 39 exemplar
The Far Tribes (1990) 31 exemplar
Snowbound (2010) 31 exemplar
The Buffalo Commons (1998) 31 exemplar
Aftershocks (1999) 27 exemplar
The Two Medicine River (1993) 26 exemplar
The Exile (2003) 24 exemplar
Canyon of Bones (2007) 24 exemplar
Sun River (1989) 23 exemplar
Skye's West: Bannack (1989) 23 exemplar
Badlands (1992) 19 exemplar
Restitution (2001) 18 exemplar
The Richest Hill on Earth (2011) 18 exemplar
Flint's Honor (1999) 17 exemplar
The Deliverance (2003) 17 exemplar
The Fields of Eden (2001) 17 exemplar
Wind River (1797) 17 exemplar
Second Lives (1997) 17 exemplar
Santa Fe: A Skye's West Novel (1994) 16 exemplar
Sun Dance (1992) 15 exemplar
Winter Grass (1983) 14 exemplar
Vengeance Valley (2004) 14 exemplar
An Obituary for Major Reno (2005) 14 exemplar
Trouble in Tombstone (2004) 14 exemplar
Cashbox (1994) 14 exemplar
Pagans in the pulpit (1974) 14 exemplar
Where The River Runs (1990) 13 exemplar
Bitterroot: Skye's West (1991) 13 exemplar
The Rocky Mountain Company (1991) 12 exemplar
Incident at Fort Keogh (1990) 12 exemplar
The Final Tally (1990) 12 exemplar
Flint's Truth (1998) 12 exemplar
Yellowstone (Skye's West) (1990) 11 exemplar
The Fate (1992) 11 exemplar
Seven Miles To Sundown (2005) 11 exemplar
Deuces and Ladies Wild (1991) 10 exemplar
Montana Hitch (1990) 10 exemplar
Anything Goes: A Novel (2015) 10 exemplar
Richard Lamb (1987) 10 exemplar
The Witness (2000) 10 exemplar
Fool's Coach (1989) 9 exemplar
From Hell To Midnight (2006) 8 exemplar
Goldfield (1995) 8 exemplar
Drum's Ring (2001) 7 exemplar
Stop (1988) 7 exemplar
Dodging Red Cloud (1988) 6 exemplar
The children of darkness (1973) 6 exemplar
Easy Street (2012) 6 exemplar
Sam Hook (1986) 6 exemplar
Easy Pickings: A Novel (2016) 5 exemplar
Bushwack (1978) 5 exemplar
The Bounty Trail (2004) 4 exemplar
Beneath the blue mountain (1979) 4 exemplar
Brass in the Desert (2016) 3 exemplar

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BooksInMirror | 1 annan recension | Feb 19, 2024 |
Good western novel about a struggle in the later fur trapping days after beavers have "played out." Relationship between a mountain man and his "medicine woman" Cheyenne wife. From point of view of several characters.
 
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kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
“Easy Street” (2012), one of Richard S. Wheeler's last novels, did not have a major publisher. As no publisher at all is listed on the book, it must have been self-published. To be sure, it is not among his best westerns, yet still it proves entertaining while, like his others, giving readers a glimpse at the real Wild West as opposed to the popular fantasy.

The story begins, and ends, in the East, where Jay Tecumseh Warren, son of a wealthy businessman, has just graduated from Harvard expecting to live comfortably off his father's money for the rest of his life. Instead when he gets home he finds $500, a train ticket to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and a letter from his father telling him to make his own way in the world.

In Cheyenne — although with $500 he could have gone anywhere — Jay, having a Harvard degree, expects to start at the top. The only available jobs, however, are those requiring hard physical labor, which Jay decides is beneath him. He changes his mind, somewhat, when his money runs out. He takes a job with a shipping company hauling supplies by oxen for gold miners in Deadwood. He abandons that job as soon as he can, joining a gang of men planning to jump the claims of miners.

One get-rich scheme after another, legal or not, fails to put Jay on Easy Street, until in the final chapters he finally learns the lesson his father had been trying to teach him — that hard work leads to success. Nothing comes easy.

It may all be a bit simplistic, yet even in his old age Wheeler could write an engaging novel. “Easy Street” at least deserved a publisher.
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hardlyhardy | Mar 17, 2022 |
Right up to the end of his prolific career, Richard S. Wheeler wrote western novels that didn't seem like western novels. They were more about the real West than the fantasy West. His 2015 novel (he died in 2019), “Anything Goes,” must be one of those least like a typical western novel. Not among his best, it nevertheless offers a rich reading experience.

The West has been all but tamed early in the 20th century when a small vaudeville troupe braves harsh winter weather to bring entertainment to towns in the upper Rockies. The Beausoleil Brothers Follies is run by August Beausoleil, who has no brother and has put together a variety show composed of singers, dancers, comics, an animal act and a juggler. The show barely breaks even, but keeps going and usually finds an audience starved for entertainment.

Then troubles come, one after the other. The lead singer dies. One of the monkeys in the animal act dies because of the cold weather. Several of the performers get sick. Then the Orpheum Circuit, which has taken over the best theaters in the East, starts doing the same in the West, spelling doom for this independent group of performers. Prominent theaters begin canceling August's bookings.

Then there's Ginger, an 18-year-old girl who has run away from home, or more specifically, from her dominating mother who wants her to become an opera star. Ginger, who has also changed her name, has other ideas. She joins the Follies and soon becomes its star, but then forced changes in the schedule take her unwillingly back to her hometown in Idaho.

Wheeler's story may be weaker than usual, but his characters are vivid and memorable. Show business novels usually turn me off, but not this one.
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hardlyhardy | Sep 16, 2021 |

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Verk
84
Medlemmar
1,205
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#21,315
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
22
ISBN
356
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